title: Removing Text Formatting menu-title: Remove Format
{@snippet features/build-remove-format-source}
The {@link module:remove-format/removeformat~RemoveFormat Remove Format} feature allows to quickly remove any text formatting applied using inline HTML elements and CSS styles, like {@link features/basic-styles basic text styles} (bold, italic, etc.), {@link features/font font family, size, and color} and similar. Note that block—level formatting ({@link features/headings headings}, {@link features/image images}) and semantic data ({@link features/link links}) will not be removed.
Select the content you want to clean up and press the "Remove Format" button in the toolbar:
{@snippet features/remove-format}
The feature has no integration–level configuration. Once enabled, it works out–of–the–box with all {@link features/index core editor features}.
To make it possible for the remove formatting feature to work with your custom content, you must first mark it in the {@link framework/guides/architecture/editing-engine#schema schema}. All you need to do is set the isFormatting property on your custom {@link framework/guides/architecture/editing-engine#text-attributes text attribute}. {@link module:engine/model/schema~Schema#setAttributeProperties Learn more about attribute properties.}
To add this feature to your editor install the @ckeditor/ckeditor5-remove-format package:
npm install --save @ckeditor/ckeditor5-remove-format
And add it to your plugin list and the toolbar configuration:
import RemoveFormat from '@ckeditor/ckeditor5-remove-format/src/removeformat';
ClassicEditor
.create( document.querySelector( '#editor' ), {
plugins: [ RemoveFormat, ... ],
toolbar: [ 'removeFormat', ... ]
} )
.then( ... )
.catch( ... );
Read more about {@link builds/guides/integration/installing-plugins installing plugins}.
The {@link module:remove-format/removeformat~RemoveFormat} plugin registers the 'removeFormat' UI button component the command of the same name implemented by {@link module:remove-format/removeformatcommand~RemoveFormatCommand}.
The command can be executed using the {@link module:core/editor/editor~Editor#execute editor.execute()} method:
// Removes all the formatting in the selection.
editor.execute( 'removeFormat' );
We recommend using the official {@link framework/guides/development-tools#ckeditor-5-inspector CKEditor 5 inspector} for development and debugging. It will give you tons of useful information about the state of the editor such as internal data structures, selection, commands, and many more.
The source code of the feature is available on GitHub in https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor5-remove-format.